Luis Lastras is the Director of Language Technologies at IBM Research, where they oversee the global research strategy on AI for Conversational Systems. With a career primarily at IBM, they spent three years at IBM Watson, leading teams that launched new offerings in artificial intelligence. Luis previously directed a multiyear program on error correcting codes, resulting in technology widely utilized in IBM's mainframe and POWER systems. Educated at Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi and Cornell University, Luis holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, as well as MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering.
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